Issues With Connecting To Servers

[Tweston]

I have been using Folding@home for years with over 45 million points but recently I have had issues with connecting to servers within the Folding@home network which started around the time the new client version came out. I think there may be a bug in the new client that was recently released.

The errors I am receiving is below.

04:00:55:W :CON20:DNS lookup failed for assign1.foldingathome.org
04:00:55:E :OUT20:Failed response: CONNECT

Another Error I am receiving is.

21:39:45:I1:WU13:Downloading WU
21:39:45:I1:OUT71:> POST https://ds01.scs.illinois.edu/api/assign HTTP/1.1
21:39:46:I1:OUT71:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
21:39:46:E :OUT71:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":{"message":"Please wait","code":503}

Is there any way to fix this? I have been using Folding@home for around 7 years and never had any issues until now with this.

[calxalot]

Please try the latest beta.
https://foldingathome.org/beta/

[Tweston]

That fixed it, Thank you for the solution. It must have been the previous client version that was causing that error.

[Duce H_K_]

upgraded to 8.4 Beta. But no luck

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14:47:29:I2: <!-- Resource Settings -->
14:47:29:I2: <cpus v='28'/>
14:47:29:I2:
14:47:29:I2: <!-- Server -->
14:47:29:I2: <allow v='0.0.0.0/0'/>
14:47:29:I2: <deny v='10.0.0.0/8,100.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16'/>
14:47:29:I2:
14:47:29:I2: <!-- User Information -->
14:47:29:I2: <passkey v='*****'/>
14:47:29:I2: <team v='47191'/>
14:47:29:I2: <user v='Duce-HK'/>
14:47:29:I2:</config>
14:47:29:I1:Opening Database
14:47:29:I1:F@H ID = zj-tvbaXh5qBPfp8znN7sH7faQgIKB4bj5wYRPfPO4I
14:47:29:I3:Loading default resource group
14:47:29:I1:Listening for HTTP on 127.0.0.1:7396
14:47:29:I3:Loaded 0 wus.
14:47:29:I1:Started Windows systray control
14:47:30:I3:gpus = {
14:47:30:I3: "gpu:02:00:00": {
14:47:30:I3: "vendor": 4318,
14:47:30:I3: "type": "nvidia",
14:47:30:I3: "description": "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070",
14:47:30:I3: "uuid": "6697411f-c731-c251-4e10-95cae6889ff1",
14:47:30:I3: "opencl": {"platform": 0, "device": 0, "compute": "3.0", "driver": "560.94"},
14:47:30:I3: "cuda": {"platform": 0, "device": 0, "compute": "8.6", "driver": "12.6"},
14:47:30:I3: "device": 9348,
14:47:30:I3: "supported": true
14:47:30:I3: }
14:47:30:I3:}
14:47:44:W :CON1:DNS lookup failed for api.foldingathome.org
14:47:44:E :OUT1:Failed response: CONNECT
14:47:54:I1:Machine state fold
14:47:54:I1:Default:Added new work unit: cpus:0 gpus:gpu:02:00:00
14:47:54:I1:WU30:Requesting WU assignment for user Duce-HK team 47191
14:48:09:W :CON3:DNS lookup failed for assign1.foldingathome.org
14:48:09:E :OUT3:Failed response: CONNECT
14:48:09:I1:WU30:Retry #1 in 2 secs
14:48:11:I1:WU30:Requesting WU assignment for user Duce-HK team 47191
14:48:14:W :CON4:DNS lookup failed for api.foldingathome.org
14:48:14:E :OUT4:Failed response: CONNECT
14:48:26:W :CON5:DNS lookup failed for assign2.foldingathome.org
14:48:26:E :OUT5:Failed response: CONNECT
14:48:26:I1:WU30:Retry #2 in 4 secs
14:48:30:I1:WU30:Requesting WU assignment for user Duce-HK team 47191
14:48:45:W :CON6:DNS lookup failed for assign3.foldingathome.org
14:48:45:E :OUT6:Failed response: CONNECT
14:48:45:I1:WU30:Retry #3 in 8 secs
14:48:46:W :CON7:DNS lookup failed for api.foldingathome.org
14:48:46:E :OUT7:Failed response: CONNECT
14:48:53:I1:WU30:Requesting WU assignment for user Duce-HK team 47191
14:49:08:W :CON8:DNS lookup failed for assign4.foldingathome.org
14:49:08:E :OUT8:Failed response: CONNECT
14:49:08:I1:WU30:Retry #4 in 16 secs
14:49:24:I1:WU30:Requesting WU assignment for user Duce-HK team 47191
14:49:35:W :CON9:DNS lookup failed for api.foldingathome.org
14:49:35:E :OUT9:Failed response: CONNECT
14:49:39:W :CON10:DNS lookup failed for assign5.foldingathome.org
14:49:39:E :OUT10:Failed response: CONNECT
14:49:39:I1:WU30:Retry #5 in 32 secs

[calxalot]

Your allow/deny settings are backwards, but I don’t think that is your problem.

[Duce H_K_]

I can easily ping this hosts and opening them in web browser is fine.

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17:42:07:W :CON1:DNS lookup failed for fah1.innovatr.ca
17:42:07:E :OUT1:Failed response: CONNECT
17:42:07:W :CON2:DNS lookup failed for assign1.foldingathome.org
17:42:07:E :OUT2:Failed response: CONNECT
17:42:22:W :CON4:DNS lookup failed for highland4.seas.upenn.edu
17:42:22:E :OUT4:Failed response: CONNECT
17:42:24:W :CON5:DNS lookup failed for assign2.foldingathome.org
17:42:24:E :OUT5:Failed response: CONNECT
17:42:37:W :CON6:DNS lookup failed for ds01.scs.illinois.edu
17:42:37:E :OUT6:Failed response: CONNECT
17:42:38:W :CON8:DNS lookup failed for highland3.seas.upenn.edu
17:42:38:E :OUT8:Failed response: CONNECT
17:42:43:W :CON7:DNS lookup failed for assign3.foldingathome.org
17:42:43:E :OUT7:Failed response: CONNECT
17:42:53:W :CON9:DNS lookup failed for vav24.fah.temple.edu
17:42:53:E :OUT9:Failed response: CONNECT
17:43:06:W :CON10:DNS lookup failed for assign4.foldingathome.org
17:43:06:E :OUT10:Failed response: CONNECT
17:43:08:W :CON11:DNS lookup failed for ds03.scs.illinois.edu
17:43:08:E :OUT11:Failed response: CONNECT
17:43:23:W :CON12:DNS lookup failed for fah1.innovatr.ca
17:43:23:E :OUT12:Failed response: CONNECT
17:43:33:W :CON13:DNS lookup failed for assign5.foldingathome.org
17:43:33:E :OUT13:Failed response: CONNECT
17:43:33:W :CON14:DNS lookup failed for highland4.seas.upenn.edu
17:43:33:E :OUT14:Failed response: CONNECT

What does the client use for DNS resolving?

[calxalot]

Custom cross platform code. There were problems trying to use libevent dns.

Does dns always fail for your fah client?
Is it possibly a firewall?
Fritzbox has been a problem in the past too.

[calxalot]

What version of Windows?

[Duce H_K_]

Windows 11 Pro
Not sure DNS failed somewhere else.
I manually enabled all outgoing connections for FahClient.exe

[Duce H_K_]

Trying to redirect requests 80 and 443 ports to 8080 with my Mikrotik
(deleted because it was not helpful)
Deleted all lines beginning with 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file. Still no luck.

[toTOW]

Are you using 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) as DNS resolver ?

[Duce H_K_]

Google 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
Sometimes yes i go to CF and back.
No idea what happened but it works fine now. Thank you

[AmigaSurfer]

After updating from fah-installer_7.6.21_x86 to fah-client_8.4.9_AMD64 two weeks ago I often got projects in the list with the status "resource not available" and the GPU wasn't folding. In the internet I found the hint to disable the GPU in the Default Resource Group and to add a new group with only the GPU enabled. The problem with the "resource not available" was gone. But sometime the GPU doesn't got a packet to fold for hours. First I thought on a server problem, because the next morning the GPU was folding again. But now I doesn't get a packet to fold for the GPU since two days.

I can reach the servers
F@H AS1: https://assign1.foldingathome.org/
F@H AS2: https://assign2.foldingathome.org/
with my browser microsoft edge. So it seems not to be a problem with the internet connection.

The first lines of the log:

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19:30:21:W :Unrecognized option 'paused'
19:30:21:W :Unrecognized option 'pci-bus'
19:30:21:W :Unrecognized option 'pci-slot'
19:30:21:I1:*********************** Folding@home Client ***********************
19:30:21:I1: Version: 8.4.9
19:30:21:I1: Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
19:30:21:I1: Org: foldingathome.org
19:30:21:I1: Copyright: 2023-2024, foldingathome.org
19:30:21:I1: Homepage: https://foldingathome.org/
19:30:21:I1: License: GPL-3.0-or-later
19:30:21:I1: URL: https://v8-4.foldingathome.org/
19:30:21:I1: Date: Nov 20 2024
19:30:21:I1: Time: 14:47:46
19:30:21:I1: Revision: 360fe71b1bd05bb89814bfb97b73a5bda84802d6
19:30:21:I1: Branch: master
19:30:21:I1: Compiler: Visual C++
19:30:21:I1: Options: $( /TP $) /std:c++14 /nologo /EHa /wd4297 /wd4103 /O2
19:30:21:I1: /Zc:throwingNew /MT
19:30:21:I1: Platform: win32 10
19:30:21:I1: Bits: 64
19:30:21:I1: Mode: Release
19:30:21:I1: Config: C:\ProgramData\FAHClient\config.xml
19:30:21:I1:****************************** CBang ******************************
19:30:21:I1: Version: 1.7.2
19:30:21:I1: Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
19:30:21:I1: Org: Cauldron Development
19:30:21:I1: Copyright: Cauldron Development, 2003-2024
19:30:21:I1: Homepage: https://cauldrondevelopment.com/
19:30:21:I1: License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
19:30:21:I1: Date: Nov 20 2024
19:30:21:I1: Time: 09:04:40
19:30:21:I1: Revision: 443c54e909eb8d8994405a18fb328b5b05a623a5
19:30:21:I1: Branch: master
19:30:21:I1: Compiler: Visual C++
19:30:21:I1: Options: $( /TP $) /std:c++14 /nologo /EHa /wd4297 /wd4103 /O2
19:30:21:I1: /Zc:throwingNew /MT
19:30:21:I1: Platform: win32 10
19:30:21:I1: Bits: 64
19:30:21:I1: Mode: Release
19:30:21:I1:***************************** System ******************************
19:30:21:I1: CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor
19:30:21:I1: CPU ID: AuthenticAMD Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0
19:30:21:I1: CPUs: 6
19:30:21:I1: Memory: 15.74GiB
19:30:21:I1:Free Memory: 12.14GiB
19:30:21:I1: OS Version: 6.2
19:30:21:I1:Has Battery: false
19:30:21:I1: On Battery: false
19:30:21:I1: Hostname: Frank-PC
19:30:21:I1: UTC Offset: 1
19:30:21:I1: PID: 1576
19:30:21:I1: CWD: C:\ProgramData\FAHClient
19:30:21:I1: Exec: C:\Program Files\FAHClient\FAHClient.exe
19:30:21:I1:*******************************************************************
19:30:21:I2:<config>
19:30:21:I2: <!-- User Information -->
19:30:21:I2: <passkey v='*****'/>
19:30:21:I2: <team v='251999'/>
19:30:21:I2: <user v='AmigaSurfer'/>
19:30:21:I2:</config>
19:30:21:I1:Opening Database
19:30:21:I1:F@H ID = j1L24-pViH_u48uuoea6KqWLvwW8NdednPFDG3_gBOQ
19:30:21:I3:Loading default resource group
19:30:21:I3:Loading GPU resource group
19:30:21:I1:Listening for HTTP on 127.0.0.1:7396
19:30:21:I3:Loaded 0 wus.
19:30:21:I1:Started Windows systray control
19:30:22:I3:gpus = {
19:30:22:I3: "gpu:01:00:00": {
19:30:22:I3: "vendor": 4098,
19:30:22:I3: "type": "amd",
19:30:22:I3: "description": "Hawaii",
19:30:22:I3: "opencl": {"platform": 0, "device": 0, "compute": "2.0", "driver": "3240.7"},
19:30:22:I3: "device": 26545,
19:30:22:I3: "supported": true
19:30:22:I3: }
19:30:22:I3:}
19:30:52:I1:Machine state fold
19:30:52:I1:Default:Added new work unit: cpus:4 gpus:
19:30:52:I1:GPU:Added new work unit: cpus:0 gpus:gpu:01:00:00
19:30:52:I1:WU49:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
19:30:53:I1:WU50:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
19:30:53:I1:OUT2:> POST https://assign1.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
19:30:53:I1:OUT3:> POST https://assign2.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
19:30:53:I1:OUT2:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK
19:30:53:I1:WU49:Received WU assignment 03C-ft9PAPtoF8ygpEwm10aHIz1VqI4zz6ni7dhCDto
19:30:53:I1:WU49:Downloading WU
19:30:53:I1:OUT3:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
19:30:53:E :OUT3:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
19:30:53:I1:WU50:Retry #1 in 2 secs
19:30:53:I1:OUT4:> POST https://highland1.seas.upenn.edu/api/assign HTTP/1.1
19:30:55:I1:WU50:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
19:30:55:I1:OUT5:> POST https://assign3.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
19:30:56:I1:OUT5:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
19:30:56:E :OUT5:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
19:30:56:I1:WU50:Retry #2 in 4 secs
19:31:00:I1:WU50:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
19:31:00:I1:OUT6:> POST https://assign4.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
19:31:00:I1:OUT6:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
19:31:00:E :OUT6:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
19:31:00:I1:WU50:Retry #3 in 8 secs

The last lines of the log:

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19:46:27:I1:WU71:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
19:46:27:I1:OUT623:> POST https://assign6.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
19:46:28:I1:OUT623:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
19:46:28:E :OUT623:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
19:46:28:I1:WU71:Retry #272 in 8 mins 32 secs
19:50:37:I1:WU74:Completed 40000 out of 500000 steps (8%)
19:55:00:I1:WU71:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
19:55:00:I1:OUT624:> POST https://assign1.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
19:55:01:I1:OUT624:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
19:55:01:E :OUT624:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
19:55:01:I1:WU71:Retry #273 in 8 mins 32 secs
20:03:33:I1:WU71:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
20:03:33:I1:OUT626:> POST https://assign2.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
20:03:33:I1:OUT626:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
20:03:33:E :OUT626:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
20:03:33:I1:WU71:Retry #274 in 8 mins 32 secs
20:12:05:I1:WU71:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
20:12:05:I1:OUT627:> POST https://assign3.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
20:12:06:I1:OUT627:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
20:12:06:E :OUT627:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
20:12:06:I1:WU71:Retry #275 in 8 mins 32 secs
20:15:56:I1:WU74:Completed 45000 out of 500000 steps (9%)
20:20:38:I1:WU71:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
20:20:38:I1:OUT628:> POST https://assign4.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
20:20:38:I1:OUT628:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
20:20:38:E :OUT628:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
20:20:38:I1:WU71:Retry #276 in 8 mins 32 secs
20:29:10:I1:WU71:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
20:29:11:I1:OUT629:> POST https://assign5.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
20:29:11:I1:OUT629:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
20:29:11:E :OUT629:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
20:29:11:I1:WU71:Retry #277 in 8 mins 32 secs
20:37:43:I1:WU71:Requesting WU assignment for user AmigaSurfer team 251999
20:37:44:I1:OUT630:> POST https://assign6.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
20:37:44:I1:OUT630:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
20:37:44:E :OUT630:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}
20:37:44:I1:WU71:Retry #278 in 8 mins 32 secs
20:41:11:I1:WU74:Completed 50000 out of 500000 steps (10%)

What is the reason for this problem? How can this be fixed?

[muziqaz]

This is not the problem. This is normal for old GPUs to not get work. This occurrence will increase as time goes on, as we filter out older hardware more and more. It was just a coincidence that you updated to new client that you stopped getting more work. Client has no influence towards that